Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD
SDPD said he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possible under the influence of something

A co-founder for Invisible Children was detained in Pacific Beach Thursday night for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to San Diego Police Department.

Jason Russell, 33, was allegedly found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, according to Lt. Andra Brown. He was detained at the intersection of Ingraham Street and Riviera Road.

Brown said Russell was acting very strange.

Police said they received several calls yesterday at 11:30 a.m. of a man in various stages of undress, running through traffic and screaming. Police described him as "in his underwear."

32. It is interesting. Very strange, considering the recent campaign to get Kony.

“Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better. The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday. Jason’s passion and his work have done so much to help so many, and we are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue. We will always love and support Jason, and we ask that you give his entire family privacy during this difficult time.”

Russell is one of the the founders responsible for the "Kony 2012" video that recently went viral. He is described on the organization's website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer." Russell is also described as a Christian and father to two children who wants to have nine more children with his wife he calls his "best friend for over 23 years."

16. Official statement from article

"Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better."

His camp isn't denying this or alleging something more. Why are some trying to cook up a nefarious plot?

I will say that it is strange to do any of this because your are tired, hungry and thirsty. Even if he was drunk, that behavior has to be in his head and heart. Substance remove inhibitions, not give you new impulses.

23. Meh - Thatcher's PR man did it , was knighted by her, and made a lord by Blair

This exhibitionism asserted itself somewhat differently in one of the most controversial incidents of his life. In the early hours of 21 October 1977, three days after his thirty-sixth birthday and close to the peak of his advertising career, Bell stood naked in the bathroom of his second-floor flat at 13c West Heath Road overlooking Hampstead Heath, and exposed himself to several women while masturbating. At 8.35 a.m. he was arrested and a month later, on 19 November 1977, appeared at Hampstead Magistrates Court. According to the official conviction certificate, he was charged with ‘wilfully, openly, lewdly and obscenely’ exposing himself ‘with intent to insult a female’ under Section 4 of the 1824 Vagrancy Act. He was found guilty and fined £50 with seven days to pay. Curiously, this newsworthy case was never reported in the local newspaper, the Hampstead and Highgate Express and only his close colleagues at Saatchi’s knew of it. To his credit, Bell never flinched when the incident, which later assumed an importance of some magnitude, was raised. He admitted the conviction but denied that the event took place. He confided to a colleague that his lawyers, Butcher Brooks and Co. advised him to plead guilty to avoid a scandal.

26. When Jesus says masturbate in public and vandalize cars, I'm sure He has a reason. n/t

20. This is very unfortunate, and I wonder what...

...is going on.

I stumbled upon the invisible children video. This man and his organization are
trying to stop a horrible man, Joseph Kony, in Uganda who is kidnapping, torturing and forcing
children (as young as 12) to join his army and kill others. Some of these children
have been forced to kill their own parents. These children are traumatized.

This entire campaign is Internet-driven by young 20-somethings. It has grown
and it is a testament to how "WE THE PEOPLE" can rise up and affect change.

In fact, if I'm not mistaken, this group was the impetus that caused the Obama
Administration to send the 100 Americans into Uganda to help.

This group is very organized, internet-savvy and they are making headway.
They are growing and becoming powerful. They have a huge national
event "Light up the Night" that is planned for April 20, where many volunteers
in towns/cities from all over the US--will paper Kony "wanted posters" in an
effort to make him a household name--so something will be done.

I'm not saying that he didn't do these things. It sound like he was drunk in public, but
it is incredibly suspicious--the timing of all of this.

Did something negative happen to the organization or did they have a setback in their
efforts? Did something stressful happen that caused a total breakdown?

I bet there is more to this story. Again, not saying that he didn't do these things--but
you tend to wonder about these things during this day and age--when bucking the
system and protesting loud enough to change American foreign policy--is viewed
as "out of line" by many elites in control.

What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting “Intelligent Design”, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas into public schools — or with The Call, whose leader Lou Engle claims homosexuals are possessed by demons, calls God an “avenger of blood” and a “terrorist”, and in May 2010 staged a rally in Kampala, Uganda, at which Engle warned of a gay menace to society and shared a stage with one of the authors of Uganda’s notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?

990 IRS tax forms and yearly reports from Invisible Children, and 990s from its major donors, tell a story that’s jarringly at odds with the secular, airbrushed, feelgood image the nonprofit has cultivated.

Among the tens of millions of people who have watched Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 viral video, including Oprah Winfrey – a dedicated supporter of LGBT rights who also has given $2 million dollars to Invisible Children, how many were aware of IC’s extensive financial ties to far-right fundamentalism, including major funders of the mounting global war on gay rights ? IC doesn’t go out of its way to advertise these things.

It was actually a kid near my neck of the woods that started investigating his organization and began talking about things like the 80% "overhead" rate and Kony 2012's ties to some pretty vile evangelical or Dominionist groups.

Kony himself is one of the single vilest people on the planet and his defeat, arrest or death will only be a net plus for the species, but that doesn't mean that IC's a squeaky-clean group of paladins.

33. IOWD's..latching on to a cause against an Evil Person can make Big Money?

Yeah...I can see that. That's how we got into Invading Iraq...and a few other things we've been gullible enough to be fed propaganda to spend our tax dollars for.

Same Old...Same Old... What's Knew about the latest "Con Game" that anyone can concoct?

He might have just been OFF MEDS or whatever. Maybe his cause, he feels is real, but this story about him is not going to make those who watched video and felt impowered to help those in Uganda feel good about this. Hurts alot of folks who believed it.

44. And I might add...

...it's typical for a twenty something to get drunk, be out partying and be walking
down the street drunk. I wonder if some of these other charges weren't exaggerated
or even made up?

We're hearing all kind of rumor and innuendo about this organization now that we hadn't heard
until it gained some traction.

That leaves me suspicious that someone is playing dirty PR and attempting to smear this
organization.

I mean...is the story true about Kony or not? Is he kidnapping children and forcing them
to rape and kill in his sick war? If those things are true--the rest is malarky.

We all have to understand that the powerful and the elite right now--are attempting to
oppress "We The People". Any instance of the people rising up and making change will
be squashed. We must be aware that attempts could be made to disparage a grass-roots
organization that is rising up.

I will wait for more information before I make any judgement--and I certainly won't allow all
of this background noise and attacks on the organization's personalities--to diminish the evil
and sick actions of this Kony monster.

52. The basic story of Kony is true; the question is whether 'Invisible Children' are the right people

through whom to work. The LRA has been kidnapping children, raping some, forcing others to be soldiers, for years and years; but Kony himself is not thought to have been in Uganda itself for 6 years, which the Invisible Children video didn't mention, it seems (I haven't watched it through, but others say that).

Invisible Children is an evangelical organisation that spends a lot of its money on making slick videos. See, for instance, this from British TV (Charlie Brooker is a humorist who specialises in analysing media):

When people do enough coke to kill a fucking horse and then go off the reservation, why is "exhaustion" always blamed? I've been tired and dehydrated before, but at no point did I think it was a good idea to go jack off in the neighbors' flower beds.

I think that would bother many folks. Along with the fact that Women's groups are being targeted by these Fundies, ...we know GLBT Community has been a target of them for years.

The co-founder who got caught was doing some bizarre behavior.

My gripe with the group was that they wanted Obama to bring MORE TROOPs than we already have in there along with NGO's and NATO and Oil/Mineral Lobbying Foups on the "pretense of getting rid of KONY...when Kony isn't the MOST EVIL...There's MORE evil that's being done by the "Multi-Nationals" in Sub-Saharan Africa. It's next on PNAC's list...after we invade Iran and get rid of Assad in Syria.

Sorry...it's what it is.. And, it's not DU...who is doing this ...it's the "Powers that Be."
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Human Rights is a big issue with me. I wouldn't say what I'm saying if I hadn't read much since the Bush Selection to know and be awakened to what the "PLAN" was. Unfortunately our Dem President is going along with it.

"Union Works." I'm sure your heart is with Humanitarians ....( I used to look at causes that seemed good and donate taking them at "face value) but, look at what's going on. We trade one Puppet Dictator for another...They ALL KILL PEOPLE and many USE CHILDREN to DO IT.

We have a part in installing these people...because we want access to their Minerals, Oil, Gas, Water...whatever ...because our Multinational Corporations make money off it...while claiming they are "helping the indiginous people by buying up their resources.

Whatever...that's what I read. Apparently the Kony 2012 Co-Founder has some big problems and their "charity" is under investigation. I guess we can wait and see what happens ...but, it's not looking good for the "charity" (if it ever was a true charity)